Record ID: NMS-F307D5
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Silver book-shaped dress hook cut from sheet with projecting knops, foliate terminal base and central raised rectangular section. This central section decorated with applied filigree decoration resembling a fleur-de-lis. Recurving hook and bar attachment soldered onto the back. Front gilt. Common 16th Century type, Compare TAR 2003 no. 239. As such, due to its age and precious metal content, this object qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 4th February 2011
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Record ID: DEV-89F942
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Postmedieval silver gilt dress hook. the item was considered under the Treasure Act (1996). Please see the treasure report below for further details. Report on post-medieval silver dress-hook from Kingsbridge, Devon, 2006 T646 Dress-hook cast in one plane, pierced openwork design with remains of a hook at one end springing from foliate tendrils. At the other end an arcaded element with foliate scroll terminal. On the back, transverse bar soldered beneath arcade opening. Front gilt. 2.4 cm long. A common type for 16th C copper alloy fittings, less often found in silver. Design suggests…
Created on: Tuesday 5th February 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PAS-8B0156
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post-Medieval silver dress-fitting Silver-gilt fitting with rectangular backplate with scalloped edge, with cut-out rectangular hole at lower end and projecting pierced flap at upper end, for attachment. Soldered onto the front is a thin layer of sheet with embossed circular designs arranged in a groups of three vertically, divided by rope-twist panels. The circles decorated with applied filigree ornament and small bosses. Front gilded. Length: 2.5 cm. 16th Century. Apparently a cheaper imitation for a sewn-on fitting of a type of dress hook with cast decoration and hook o…
Created on: Friday 18th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beverley Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-8C6F02
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Report on fragment of a post-medieval dress hook Part of a silver wire dress hook comprising large loop scrolling into two smaller loops for attachment, joined by fragmentary plate with filigree decoration. 16th- 17th Century. A similar hook from Ipswich is reported through the Treasure Act in the Annual Report 2001, no. 151, as 17th Century. In terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Created on: Friday 18th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hinxton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-886933
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A Post Medieval silver gilt dress hook dating to the 16th century. Curator's report: Small silver-gilt dress hook, comprising trefoil-shaped backplate decorated with applied knops and spirals, gilt, and with re-curving hook soldered onto the back at the apex. The front gilt. On the reverse, rectangular bar attachment soldered on. The silver is badly-abraded and worn. 16th Century, a common type, compare Tar 2005-6 no. 654 and 663. As such, due to its age and precious metal content, this object qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996. Dr Dora Tho…
Created on: Thursday 21st January 2010
Last updated: Friday 2nd March 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-B72041
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Complete gilded silver hat-hook or cap-badge of late fifteenth to the first half of the sixteenth century date (c. AD 1475 - c. AD 1550). Treasure case no. BM2004 T359. Length 15mm, width 14mm and maximum thickness 6mm. Weight 3.62g. The front of the plate is in the form of a stylised flower with four main petals at the corners and four smaller petals between. Each of the larger petals is enhanced with moulded "ribs" and each is slightly different. The centre of the flower is formed by a raised truncated pyramid. The rear side of the plate has a soldered pin which is slightly out…
Created on: Thursday 11th August 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Arreton Parish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-3E6EC6
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver dress-hook in the form of three recurving hooks with tapering points, made from two lengths of thick wire, soldered onto the back of a circular boss with pinked outline in the form of a flowerhead resembling a button daisy. This boss apparently cast. Front and back-including hooks themselves-- gilded. Backplate filed. Approx 4,1 cm width and 3.6 cm long.16th Century. This is a new type of Tudor dress-hook to be recorded under the Treasure Act. According to Karen Parker, it may correspond to a hook worn on the cloak of St Margaret of Antioch in stained glass windows from the C…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2013
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Record ID: BUC-D98EA8
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver-gilt dress hook of tear drop form, pinked border with hollow-cast cushion at the centre decorated with three circles formed in filigree with central knops, arranged around a central knop. Heavily gilded. Complete with recurving hook soldered onto backplate at top and rectangular bar attachment soldered onto the backplate below. A common type reported through PAS, see an example from Phillack Cornwall, 2004T339 and another from Landkey, Devon, 2004 T425; Treasure Annual Report 2004, nps.262-3. Conclusion: This object constitutes potential Treasure under the Treasure Act 19…
Created on: Thursday 19th November 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 15th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crewkerne area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-95F07B
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt silver dress tag, of openwork construction, cast in one plane with trapezoidal bar developing from central floral garland enclosing a heart (?). Gilt. Hook previously soldered onto reverse at lower edge now missing. 16mm long. 15th-16th Century. Similar in type to the dress tag from Martyr Worthy, Hampshire, for which see David Gaimster et al, "Tudor silver-gilt dress hooks", Antiquaries Journal 2003, p.168, fog.11.
Created on: Monday 12th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 12th November 2018
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Record ID: BM-54A7BA
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Triangular dress-hook; cusped backplate applied with recurving hook (broken) , attachment bar missing. On the front three hemispheres with filigree roundels and central knops; at the centre a pin with shank attaching it to the backplate, with small pierced circle of silver in form of a flowerhead which fits in middle of the dress fitting. The shank is damaged and the flower-head element is loose; it would originally have been attached to the shank by a domed-headed pin. Approx. 2.9 cm in length. 16th Century, English.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-5635C5
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt dress hook, book-shaped backplate with three projecting knops along each side, one of which has broken off. Central plate with four indentations. Recurving hook soldered onto backplate; original bar attachment on backplate now missing. L; 22mm; w: 3.6g.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-567C35
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Dress fitting assembled from elements of silver sheet. Cylindrical backplate, pinked edges, with cut out at the base, with remains of recurving hook soldered at the top. The front made in four sections, the three lower panels decorated with filigree spirals and knops, divided by cable ornament. Traces of gilding. Approx. 2 cm long. 16th Century.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-EA9CB3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
British Museum report: "Gilt-metal slide, hollow, with two raised longitudinal ridges containing running foliate scrolls. The form, metal and design of this object suggest an early 20th Century date. This dating means that the object does not qualify as treasure under the 1996 Act. Dr Dora Thornton, Curator of Renaissance Collections The British Museum"
Created on: Friday 24th August 2007
Last updated: Sunday 10th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stapleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-813F05
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
Silver dress fitting with lozenge-shaped plate with bevelled edges, knop at lower point and pierced loop for suspension at upper point. Soldered onto the back and thin flap of silver, broadening out at the unattached end, stamped in the middle with maker's mark GM with pellets in a heart-shaped field, possibly a heavily-worn version of the mark GM with bird below in a dotted border, in a heart-shaped field, recorded in Jackson, Silver and Gold Marks, ed. Ian Pickford, p. 117 on a communion cup hall-marked for London 1636-7. The flap broken off at the end. The function of th…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 1st September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Outwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-8B1092
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Report on post-medieval silver-gilt dress fitting Circular dress fitting with pinked backplate and solid hemispherical centre, decorated with applied filigree circles and knops. On the back, soldering indicates location of original recurving hook. The shape, facture and ornament accords well with the hemispherical heads of Tudor dress pins, frequently reported through the Treasure Act. The lack of a rectangular bar attachment may indicate that this was one of a number of small but heavy dress ornaments rather than the conventional dress-hook of a type well-documented under the s…
Created on: Friday 18th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cottam', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-8C7D02
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver dress-fitting Hemispherical dress fitting with flat pinked base and remains of an attachment, perhaps a shank to make this object serve as a button. The domed surface applied with filigree circles and knops in the manner of contemporary dress pins. 1.5 cm diameter. 16th-17th Century. In terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Created on: Friday 18th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Littlethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-EADE47
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver Post-Medieval dress fastener. Silver dress fitting comprising central disc with rope twist border, decorated with three filigree circlets with central knops. A single loop of twisted silver wire is soldered to the back so as to form three eyes for attachment. This object is difficult to place. Similar hooks or fragments of them have been reported through the Treasure Act as undiagnostic or later than 1708: see TAR 2003 no. 285, and TAR 2004, no. 405. Another example from the East Riding (TAR 2004, no. 259) was there dated to the 17th Century. Probably 17th Century. As …
Created on: Thursday 29th May 2008
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH YORKSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-63B622
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver dress fitting, made in one plane with circular central plate with relief-moulded design of a flowerhead and one large attachment loop at base and two smaller ones on either side. Gilt. Signs of chasing on reverse. Measures 13.7mm long, 12.8mm wide, 2mm thick and weighs 1.38g. Related to, but not identical to, a type of dress fitting reported through the Treasure Act in which a flat element like this has a wire loop soldered onto the reverse, see TAR 2005-6 nos.700 and 701, and to surviving dress fittings in copper alloy. Vervels are sometimes of this form, see TAR 2005 no. 778.…
Created on: Friday 2nd October 2009
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bow Brickhill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-BF41D6
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure Case 2009 T607 British Museum Report: Fragment of openwork silver, roughly hemispherical in shape, with filigree circlets and granular knops on one side, the inside flat. Weight: 2.43g, length: 24.4 mm. Probably part of a 16th Century dress fitting such as a button, head of a dress pin or bead, but possibly later. As such, due to its age and precious metal content, this object qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996. Dr Dora Thornton British Museum
Created on: Thursday 12th November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 4th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-FC52B0
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver dress hook, cast in the form of a scallop shell. At the base of the shell is a recurving hook for attachment; opposite this, a small attachment loop on the edge of the shell, two further loops at the base of the hook. Reverse plain. Length: 2.9mm. 15th-16thCentury. The hook is in one plane, and can be compared with similar dress hooks cast in copper-alloy. Silver versions appear to be relatively rare survivals. This hook may be a precursor of the more familiar type of hook reported through the Treasure Act, which is in two planes and has both hook and bar attachment. The scallo…
Created on: Thursday 22nd July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodstock', grid reference and parish protected.